Here is what we know about the lost of freedoms, when we give it up for security, eventually torture sneaks in, because those with the power believe they can do anything, given total control. Historically, this has always been the norm....
The english did it in India, the germans under hitler, the french empire in spain, the inquisition left us with the dark ages, the witch trials, it goes on and on. And now we are doing it in the middle east, it gets around.
Torture is the perfect recruitment tool. Why the h*ll do you think isis is so popular? It's certainly not because of their politics as we are lead to believe.

We can't put the blame on one country, you can't tell me western governments didn't know about this.
The report on the CIA torture was no revelation, we knew this when those picture from abu ghraib came out, if they where capable of that, they where capable of anything.
The first reaction I had when they were reporting on all of this was "tell me something I don't know".

What's scary in all this is, let's say for the sake of argument governments didn't know, that means rogue organisations, committed these crimes, in our names? If governments loose control of their own apparatus, then the lost of freedoms is not far behind...Do we really believe if this is pushed under the rug, they will stop there? The next ones on the list would be us....That's the way torture works.
Torture takes away the humanity in democracy, eventually it becomes a twisted version of itself.
Fear is usually the driving force behind torture, and fear as of late has been the primary subject in western media...

One piece at a time, we are loosing our freedoms, what is small today will be added to the loss of what we use to have yesterday, and tomorrow we will ask ourselves how could this have happened, when we are controlled by the few....
We only have to look at ourselves in the mirror, and realise, we let this happen, we are responsible...

Our freedoms, our will to fight and die for it, use to be our strength, people of counties who did not have freedoms dreamed of having what we had, tomorrow does not look good the way things are going...

We had our terrorists in the 70's, what made us better than them was..."there is no f*cking way we will ever be what they are"....How things have changed....

Look at us now....

It's easy to fix all this...we only have to say in one loud voice...NOT IN OUR NAMES....